12 Day Retreat

Summer 2017 and 2018

Alive Body is a deep intensive psycho-physical approach to performance training that explores patterns and choices. How do you identify your habitual belief systems? How do you release repetitive physical patterning? This is an ensemble-oriented workshop where peers are vital to the learning process. Emphasis is placed on how the training meets the individual performer. Training happens from dawn to dusk and sometimes into the night. It happens during meals. It happens in the yurt, in a sauna, in the ocean, in character, in silence, and in slow motion.

PRACTICES INCLUDE:
• Grotowski: Cat, Plastiques, Corporels, Motions
• Acrobat of the Heart: Stephen Wangh’s physical acting training
• Presence: Raïna von Waldenburg’s I AM ONE WHO, impulse channeling, judge work
• Breath Work: impulse release, breath body integration, joy as source
• Rivers: Plastique, Corporel, Image Rivers with Linda Putnam
• Voice: toning, vocal rivers, embodied voice improvisations
• Viewpoints: Mary Overlie’s space, time, shape, movement, story
• Homeopathic Energetics: discovering energetic “G Spots” and “remedies” as a pathway to flow
• Paratheatre: life as theatre, the deconditioning of social patterns
• Applications to Monologues: application of training to monologues
• Discussions on Practice